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meegbear

(25,438 posts)
Fri May 25, 2012, 12:00 PM May 2012

The Rude Pundit - This S.E. Cupp Thing

Among many women and more than a few sympathetic men on the left and right, there's been mucho outrage over Hustler magazine depicting New York Daily News columnist and Ann Coulter 2.0 (devolved version) S.E. Cupp with a dick in her mouth. The title of this oh-so-scathing satire is the oh-so-subtle "What Would S.E. Cupp Look Like with a Dick in her Mouth?" And there's the photoshopped image of said Cupp with said dick in said mouth.

This has led to an expected rush of condemnation against Hustler, whose classy May issue contains, according to the cover, coverage of the Fukushima meltdown and World War II "Japanese Sex Pix," which are perfect for your Memorial Day viewing pleasure, and whose website's front page includes at least a dozen women with dicks in various orifices. Much of that condemnation has come from liberal feminists, and it has led right wing writers to trot out the usual suspects in attacking all "liberal" misogyny. So we get to hear about Bill Maher again. And Keith Olbermann.

The Rude Pundit isn't going to get into it except to say that, yes, it's a sexist attack, of course, and, of course, commentators of all political stripes cross lines to make crude and denigrating insults towards women, and those lines are often blurry. One blogger on the right muddied the waters further by pointing out another incident, where the female former head of the AFL-CIO in South Carolina smashed a Gov. Nikki Haley pinata. Is that "misogyny," as she says?

Instead of wading through what has been waded through, let's read S.E. Cupp's opinion on the Violence Against Women Act, which she gave on MSNBC last week. Asked by host Alex Wagner about it, Cupp said, "If I came to you and I said, 'I have this new piece of legislation, and I'm going to call it the Stealing From Men Act,' you'd say, 'That's preposterous. Stealing from men is a crime in all 50 states.' So is violence against women. [It's] a crime in all 50 states...It's redundant. Violence against men and women is already a crime." Which pretty much means she didn't read past the title of the act.

She also wrote in the Daily News last month regarding the gender gap hitting Republicans, &quot I)f only women would do their homework, they’d see that Republican policies of lower taxes and smaller government are better for women because they’re better for everyone. Smaller government gives women more choices, more mobility, more empowerment. I don’t know where women went wrong. Republican economic policies of self-reliance should be right up their alley. Instead, it appears as if they really just want to be taken care of. Is this the legacy of feminism?"

See, there's loads of reasons to condemn Cupp that have nothing at all to do with her sex. She's an idiot who advocates for appalling policies that are detrimental to feminism and to women in general. Gotta say: that's a fuck of a lot more offensive. And a dick in her mouth won't change a thing about it.

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The Rude Pundit - This S.E. Cupp Thing (Original Post) meegbear May 2012 OP
I still say Larry Flynt is a horse's ass. Archae May 2012 #1
And he would agree with you. n/t Egalitarian Thug May 2012 #3
Gee I bet S.E. Cupp doesn't live in Topeka Ks SomethingFishy May 2012 #2
Meh LadyHawkAZ May 2012 #4
Most commentary on this topic misses the point Spike89 May 2012 #5

SomethingFishy

(4,876 posts)
2. Gee I bet S.E. Cupp doesn't live in Topeka Ks
Fri May 25, 2012, 01:32 PM
May 2012

where spousal abuse is DECRIMINALIZED.

Fucking Republican women are so full of shit it's not even funny. They toe the party line right up until it affects them personally. Then all of a sudden some of these "liberal" laws aren't so bad. Just ask Megyn Kelly, who had to defend her right to Maternity Leave against fellow asshat Mike Gallagher

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/jon-stewart-attacks-megyn-kelly-as-a-hypocrite-for-defending-maternity-leave/




LadyHawkAZ

(6,199 posts)
4. Meh
Fri May 25, 2012, 02:13 PM
May 2012

This has been Hustler's stock in trade since day 1. Cupp's trying to pull a Falwell and earn herself a little free (and undeserved) publicity.

Spike89

(1,569 posts)
5. Most commentary on this topic misses the point
Fri May 25, 2012, 02:50 PM
May 2012

Yes, finally someone touching on the real issue, but even so, I think it is still off target. Misogyny is not anti-woman, it is anti-women (one vowel makes a world of difference). No doubt you can attack a woman in a misogynist way, but you can attack her without being misogynist.
All of that is still just a smokescreen and misdirection attempt by the right. The war on women (misogyny, note the "e&quot is one thing. It is a war on women through policy and laws and as such it becomes institutionalized misogyny. Attacks on the views of any woman, even done in a blatantly misogynist manner (Maher for example) are NOT the same thing--they don't necessarily promote anti-female policies/laws.
In fact, it is often the case that a woman promoting misogynist policies publicly (Anita Bryant for a classic example) will be attacked in inappropriate ways by the very people who abhor anti-female policies.

The war on women by the republicans is a war, but they (repugs) are doing a great job in getting the conversation turned toward the brushfires off in the distance. Yes, using terms and language that are inherently misogynist is something that too many people in both parties do, but just because that is so doesn't mean that both parties are equally concerned (or unconcerned) with women's issues.

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